8-letter words containing e, s, a
- augments — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of augment.
- augurers — Plural form of augurer.
- auguries — Plural form of augury.
- aurelius — Marcus(Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) a.d. 121-180; Rom. emperor (161-180) & Stoic philosopher
- aureoles — Plural form of aureole.
- auricles — Plural form of auricle.
- aurifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aurify.
- auspices — an augur of ancient Rome.
- austerer — Comparative form of austere.
- autecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autolyse — to undergo or cause to undergo autolysis
- autosave — a function on a computer that automatically saves data at regular intervals
- autosome — any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome
- autotest — a motor race in which standard cars are driven around a racing circuit
- avengers — to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for: to avenge a grave insult.
- averages — Achieve or amount to as an average rate or amount over a period of time.
- avernus' — a crater lake in S Italy, near Naples and the Tyrrhenian Sea, thought by ancients to be the entrance to the underworld.
- averroes — Arabic name ibn-Rushd. 1126–88, Arab philosopher and physician in Spain, noted particularly for his attempts to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy with Islamic religion, which profoundly influenced Christian scholasticism
- aversely — having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc.; opposed: He is not averse to having a drink now and then.
- aversion — If you have an aversion to someone or something, you dislike them very much.
- aversity — The state or condition of being averse.
- aversive — tending to dissuade or repel
- averstar — (company) The US software engineering company that developed Hal, under their former name, "Intermetrics". Other products include CS-4, Red, Mwave Developers Toolkit (multimedia for IBM PC), cross-compilers for C and C++; Ada '83, Ada 95, and SAMeDL. AverStar also supply client/server systems; custom software applications and turnkey systems; independent verification and validation; CAE integration technology; languages and compilers: Ada, C, C++, HDLs (MHDL), Modula, SPL/1. Address: Intermetrics, Inc., 733 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Telephone: +1 (617) 661 1840. Fax: +1 (617) 868 2843. Address: 7918 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, Va 22102, USA. Telephone: +1 (703) 827-2606. Fax: +1 (703) 827-5560. Also Houston, TX, Huntington Beach, CA, Warminster, PA, and others.
- aviaries — Plural form of aviary.
- avidness — a desire to advance; eagerness
- avoiders — Plural form of avoider.
- avouches — to make frank acknowledgment or affirmation of; declare or assert with positiveness.
- avulsive — Of or pertaining to an avulsion.
- awardees — the recipient of an award.
- awarders — Plural form of awarder.
- awayness — the state of not being in a specific place
- awesomer — (nonstandard) Comparative form of awesome.
- awfulest — Superlative form of awful.
- axonemes — Plural form of axoneme.
- ayrshire — a historical county of SW Scotland, formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now divided into the council areas of North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
- azureous — (zoology) of a fine blue color; azure.
- b-sample — a urine or blood sample used in doping tests in professional sports to confirm or invalidate the presence of banned substances in the first sample, the A-sample
- baalebos — the master of the house
- baalshem — a person who works miracles by calling upon the name of God, especially one of the German and Polish Jews of the 16th–19th centuries considered to be saintly and to possess magical powers.
- babblers — Plural form of babbler.
- babelism — a confusion, particularly a noisy confusion, of speech or ideas
- babiches — Plural form of babiche.
- backends — Plural form of backend.
- backhoes — Plural form of backhoe.
- backless — A backless dress leaves most of a woman's back uncovered down to her waist.
- backrest — The backrest of a seat or chair is the part which you rest your back on.
- backseat — relating to or taking place on the back seat of a vehicle
- backsets — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backset.
- backside — Your backside is the part of your body that you sit on.
- baconers — Plural form of baconer.